Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

ISBN-13: 9780521898690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 436 str.

Mike Hulme

Opis

A unique insider's account of climate change and the diverse ways in which it is understood.

Recenzje

'… he has written an excellent analysis of the terrain and does a great service by drawing together the essence of a very large multi-disciplinary literature. Anecdotes are freely employed to illustrate arguments and these provide a useful aid to comprehension.' Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword Steve Rayner; 1. The social meanings of climate; 2. The discovery of climate change; 3. The performance of science; 4. The endowment of value; 5. The things we believe; 6. The things we fear; 7. The communication of risk; 8. The challenges of development; 9. The way we govern; 10. Beyond climate change; Bibliography; Index.